Have you ever flown over the desert?

Above it was a deep blue never-ending starry sky, with clusters of stars crowded into the night sky, and the Milky Way rose like smoke from one side of the horizon and then drifted to the end of the other.

Below, the endless sand dunes are like frozen waves, they join each other, stretching out to the distant horizon, joining the Milky Way that hangs down from the sky, forming a complete Möbius ring.

On one side of the ring we live in the human world, and on the other side of the ring may be an unpredictable alternative time and space.

In this way, Hua Hu took me to leap and shuttle between the starry sky and the desert. That feeling, that kind of vision, is impossible to touch even in a dream.

"It's so enjoyable!" I shouted as I leaned on her back.

"It's a bit like the Shura Realm here!" She responded.

"Is the Shura Realm so desolate?"

"Not really, but the sand isn't so fine there, and there are big rocks everywhere that can't be embraced." Hua Hu shouted loudly, and the whirring wind passed in my ears.

Although I have some sympathy for the barrenness of the Shura world, I still find this kind of flying in the desert extremely cool!

However, we "jumped" south for about fifteen minutes before we encountered a new problem.

- The phone's network is disconnected, so there is no way to continue navigating.

At that time, the decision was so hasty that I still relied on Wei Yang's habits to live, forgetting that I was already in Xinjiang.

Due to remoteness and other reasons, there was no 4G signal here (it was still 2016), and shortly after entering the desert area from Kashgar to the southwest, the mobile phone signal dropped directly from 3G to Edge, and not long ago, there was no signal at all.

Fortunately, I once downloaded an offline map on my mobile phone map, and I was able to jump for a while to check it. The two of us just held on, walking and stopping.

Originally, it was planned to arrive in Yecheng in more than an hour, but because of navigation reasons, Hua Huan's "high-speed rail" basically "stopped one stop" in five minutes, and the 350 km/h Fuxing was turned into a green train that stopped at the station.

We underestimate the Taklamakan too much.

It is the second largest mobile desert in the world, with a thousand highways from east to west and 400 kilometers from north to south.

The front is sand, the back is sand, the left is sand, the right is also sand, as long as you turn the angle slightly, you can't feel the southeast and northwest at all.

Besides, it was night, and there was no sun. Fortunately, the starry sky was bright, and I could still find the Big Dipper, and then follow the spoon edge of the Big Dipper to find the North Star.

But the maddening thing is that the two of us are now heading all the way south, with the North Star behind us, so after a long time to leap forward, the direction is crooked again.

The original one-hour road, we walked for two and a half hours without touching the direction, and more importantly, the accuracy of the mobile phone's offline map was particularly low, and because of the constant search for signals, the battery quickly fell to the red alert.

Although Hua Hu didn't say it, I could feel that she was actually a little tired.

This is different from the last time when she chased the high-speed train from Weiyang to Luqiu, that time was purely a test of explosiveness, what direction or location she didn't have to consider, she just had enough horsepower and followed the train to rush forward.

But not this time, she didn't have to take a few steps to jump, and we had to land, re-study and determine the direction, and then we didn't have to go forward for long, and we had to stop and think about it for a long time.

It was time-consuming, and it was labor-intensive, and to make matters worse, Hua Hu obviously didn't have much patience.

"Damn, you can't keep flying! You can always get out of the desert! ”

"No," I stopped her, "the southern part of Xinjiang is vast and sparsely populated, and even if it crosses the desert, it is still a deserted Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and there is still no place to stay." ”

"What then?" Hua Yan said a little dejectedly, "I'm okay by myself, but now I still have you and my luggage ......."

As soon as she said this, I suddenly felt like Tang Sanzang in "Journey to the West", a burden.

"Let's not talk about how to cross the desert, we still have an urgent problem." I said with a sigh.

"What's the problem?"

I pointed to my watch: "It's eleven o'clock now, that is, in another hour, Shen Yu should be back." The problem is that she won't make the leap ......"

"Damn," Hua Fu exclaimed, she slapped her thigh hard, "This is a bit unreasonable! Yesterday she sent me to the Muslim Street to eat and drink spicy food, but today I sent her to the desert to eat and drink the ......."

"It's not just about eating and drinking, I didn't have anything to eat in my luggage, only a bottle of water, human beings are not like Asura, they can't survive in the arid desert. And it's a place like this that is prone to strong winds, and it's hard to be buried by the sand dunes before your eyes - if you don't get it right, you won't wake up tomorrow......"

I don't know what to do - because everything was fine today, and it was all according to Shen Yu's plan. But it was because of my last-minute impulsiveness that I finally fell into such an embarrassing situation.

After returning to the hotel last night, Shen Yu talked about today's plan in detail.

"In that place in Yecheng, it's quite far away to fly. So tomorrow you will go to Urumqi first, and then transfer to Kashgar.

"It takes more than three hours to drive from Kashgar to Yecheng, you can rest in Kashgar for one night, so that I will show up in the early morning, and then we will get up early the next day and rent a car to go to Yecheng."

"I told Captain Garlic that we would meet at the Yecheng County Police Station then, and then we would go to Kalaya Tur Village together, and if possible, we would go into the desert from that village."

"So, tomorrow Hua Hu is on the journey, right?" I also asked Shen Yu at the time.

"Yes, I specially arranged it, so that I can meet Captain Garlic the day after tomorrow, and there are still a lot of questions to learn from him, I only asked Lin Ying for five days off, so let's go and go back quickly." Although Lin Ying didn't say it explicitly, listening to her tone, the potential hidden danger in Evil Pass Town seemed to have 'exploded'......"

According to Shen Yu's original plan, Hua Hu and I were supposed to stay in Kashgar for one night. However, Hua Yan put forward the suggestion of leaping to Yecheng, and I also thought that this would save half a day, but I didn't expect that it would be self-defeating now - now it is not a problem of not being able to go to the village or the store at all, but a question of how to survive tomorrow.

I can think of the scene when Shen Yu opens his eyes tomorrow and scolds me with his head and face.

It doesn't matter if you scold, there is a so-called thing, how to make up for the loss, how to take them out of the desert and back into modern society - yesterday I discussed with Lin Shan and his wife how the Sarekol people survive, but I didn't expect that today we will soon become Taklamakan people......

What to do? What to do? Hua and I looked at each other, /./15_15456/